Posts tagged polar
Finding the distance between two polar coordinates

To find the distance between two polar coordinates, we have two options. We can either convert the polar points to rectangular points, then use a simpler distance formula, or we can skip the conversion to rectangular coordinates, but use a more complicated distance formula.

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Polar coordinates vs. rectangular coordinates

Any point in the coordinate plane can be expressed in both rectangular coordinates and polar coordinates. Instead of moving out from the origin using horizontal and vertical lines, like we would with rectangular coordinates, in polar coordinates we instead pick the angle, which is the direction, and then move out from the origin a certain distance.

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